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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a bow-window or oriel the plan of which is a segment of a circle.
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I. ii.120 (17,7) compass-window] The _compass-window_ is the same as the
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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